The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12

| food producing trades, the transportation
| industries and In the workshops of almost
every variety Of handicraft known to mod
ern civilization. 1t is perfectly safe to say
| that if the members of this American led
Grafton were carried off in body to some
uninhabited land and supplied with the
necessary food, they could in few years
build city as large as New York, and
furnish it with ali the comforts, conven-
fences and appliances Of life to be found In
New York
No man will deny that such an organiza-
ton, co-extensive with the country and city
| activities, must, if directed by sound sense,
judgment and unity of purpose, exercise an
influence in the field of American industry
not to be overlooked by those who are watch
ing the development of federated trades
unionism, established upon a national scale:
1t is a novelty, differing in its methods and
management from those of the knights OF
Labor
One of the difficult but unavoid-
able duties imposed upon the ma
tional convention in Baltimore will
relate to the attitude of the new organiza-
ton toward the order of the knights OF
Labor There is in the federation heavy
force that is not averse to a proclamation
of war upon the order. They declare that
the latter has shown its hostility to the
trades union principles upon which the fed
GRAFTON is founded, and that the Knights OF
Labor Executive Board especially has for
years directed its energies toward the de-
struction of some of the most useful trades
unions in the country. The federation, in
fact, is a revolt against the methods and the
managers of the order, and there are men
In both who hold that one or the other must
be driven to the wall. The leaders of the
federation tell how they tried again and
again last year to form a treaty of peace
and a cooperation with the leaders of the
order, and how all their advances were
spuTned with contumely There is no ques-
ton that it will be hard to represS the bellig
erent feelings that have been engendered
between the managers of the two great labor
organizations that now stand as rivals in the
United States, especially in view of the fact
that the newer body has grown at the ex-
pense of the older and that the membership
which the latter confeSses to have lost has
gone over almost solidly to the latter and
made it what it is. But the shrewder men
on both sides have begun to see the damage
that would surely accrue to labor organiZa-
tions if war should break out between the
two camps. The adversary whom both
sides fear would quickly take advantage of
the Circumstances and that would re ult in
havoc in the ranks of both. 1t is likely,
therefore, that steps will be taken to Quell
any belligerent spirit that may strive for
ascendency in the national convention at
Baltimore. The federation is now so much
stronger than it was when its offers of ne
gotiation were rejected last year, and the
Knights eff Labor have gone through such
severe experiences since then, that the pol
icy of ''hurling defiancen will be likely to
give way before than of the olive branch
But, for all that, it will be worth while to
take notice of the attitude of the young
giant at Baltimore JOHN SwINToN.